Narciso Rodriguez Narciso Poudrée Eau de Parfum

Here is a very atypical eau de parfum: Narciso Poudrée is like a second skin, really. From the bottle to the smell, through the color, it's a product that could almost be confused with a foundation, or a loose powder.

And that's the point.

Before, the great ladies had delicate powders that they dabbed on their face with a soft little pout, it exploded into a thousand wispy flakes and scented the room with a satiny floral scent. This scent takes us back to the Belle Époque, when people still wore corsets in huge gowns and women wore large elegant hats.

It's a very particular scent, a rich, classy perfume that immediately evokes Parisian gilding and large feather and fur boas.

Narciso Poudrée proposes precisely to find this enveloping sensation, soft, out of time. It's a scent that might seem old-fashioned, if the genius of this perfumer didn't consist in making it totally timeless.

After all, class is impervious to time...